From 9e5963aaf124db3de9a3a13d8c1b5cd6d2ab45e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: guest Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 23:30:00 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] none --- AFSLore/AFSFrequentlyAskedQuestions.mdwn | 16 +++++++++++++--- AFSLore/AndrewProject.mdwn | 3 +++ AFSLore/TransarcCorporation.mdwn | 3 +++ 3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) create mode 100644 AFSLore/AndrewProject.mdwn create mode 100644 AFSLore/TransarcCorporation.mdwn diff --git a/AFSLore/AFSFrequentlyAskedQuestions.mdwn b/AFSLore/AFSFrequentlyAskedQuestions.mdwn index 13aae52..a7e69f5 100644 --- a/AFSLore/AFSFrequentlyAskedQuestions.mdwn +++ b/AFSLore/AFSFrequentlyAskedQuestions.mdwn @@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ Changes from the last version are to be found at the end of this file. AFS is a distributed filesystem that enables co-operating hosts (clients and servers) to efficiently share filesystem resources across both local area and wide area networks. -AFS is marketed, maintained, and extended by Transarc Corporation. +The commercial version of AFS is marketed, maintained, and extended by Transarc Corporation. AFS is based on a distributed file system originally developed at the Information Technology Center at Carnegie-Mellon University that was called the "Andrew File System". @@ -234,7 +234,9 @@ AFS is based on a distributed file system originally developed at the Informatio ### 1.02 Who supplies AFS? - Transarc Corporation phone: +1 (412) 338-4400 +There are currently three sources for AFS: Commercial Transarc (now part of IBM), the open sourced version of former Transarc AFS called [[OpenAFS]] and the independent open source project Arla. + + 1. Transarc Corporation phone: +1 (412) 338-4400 The Gulf Tower 707 Grant Street fax: +1 (412) 338-4404 Pittsburgh @@ -243,6 +245,10 @@ AFS is based on a distributed file system originally developed at the Informatio WWW: http://www.transarc.com + 2. OpenAFS WWW: http://www.openafs.org/ + + 3. Arla WWW: http://www.stacken.kth.se/projekt/arla/ + ### 1.03 What is /afs? The root of the AFS filetree is /afs. If you execute "ls /afs" you will see directories that correspond to AFS cells (see below). These cells may be local (on same LAN) or remote (eg halfway around the world). @@ -398,7 +404,9 @@ Finally, the AFS clients were moved - this was noticed! ### 1.06 Which systems is AFS available for? -AFS runs on systems from: HP, Next, DEC, IBM, SUN, and SGI. +AFS runs on systems from: HP, Compaq, IBM, SUN, SGI, Apple ([[MacOSX]]) and PCs with flavours of Unix. + +AFS has been available for Next and DEC (Ultrix). Transarc customers have done ports to Crays, and the 3090, but all are based on some flavour of unix. Some customers have done work to make AFS data available to PCs and Macs, although they are using something similar to the AFS/NFS translator (a system that enables "NFS only" clients to NFS mount the AFS filetree /afs). @@ -430,6 +438,8 @@ The AFS on Linux FAQ may be found at: - +Check out the [[OpenAFS]] and Arla pages for port avilablity. + ### 1.07 What does "ls /afs" display in the Internet AFS filetree? Essentially this displays the AFS cells that co-operate in the Internet AFS filetree. diff --git a/AFSLore/AndrewProject.mdwn b/AFSLore/AndrewProject.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..15927e6 --- /dev/null +++ b/AFSLore/AndrewProject.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +In the 1983, with mainframes in decline, Carnegie Mellon initiated a joint venture with IBM to develop a vast distributed computing environment for their campus. This collaberation was organized as the Information Technology Center. ITC generated many new technologies, of which the Andrew File System (now called AFS with no expansion for the abbreviation) is one of the most well known. + +-- [[TWikiGuest]] - 28 Jan 2002 diff --git a/AFSLore/TransarcCorporation.mdwn b/AFSLore/TransarcCorporation.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bc6b1c0 --- /dev/null +++ b/AFSLore/TransarcCorporation.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +The ITC group at Carnegie Mellon spun off Transarc to commercialize AFS. + +-- [[TWikiGuest]] - 28 Jan 2002 -- 1.9.4